Romans 8:39

Geneva Bible (1560)

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shalbe able to separate vs from the loue of God, which is in Christ Iesus our Lord.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὔτε ὕψωμα, οὔτε βάθος, οὔτε τις κτίσις ἑτέρα, δυνήσεται ἡμᾶς χωρίσαι ἀπὸ τῆς ἀγάπης τοῦ Θεοῦ, τῆς ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ Κυρίῳ ἡμῶν.

Transliteration

Oute hypsōma, oute bathos, oute tis ktisis hetera, dynēsetai hēmas chōrisai apo tēs agapēs tou Theou, tēs en Christō Iēsou tō Kyriō of us.

Grammar Details

• *Oute*: negative disjunctive conjunction - neither
• *hypsōma*: nominative neuter singular - height
• *oute*: negative disjunctive conjunction - nor
• *bathos*: nominative neuter singular - depth
• *tis*: indefinite pronoun nominative feminine singular - any
• *ktisis*: nominative feminine singular - creation
• *hetera*: nominative feminine singular - other
• *dynēsetai*: future middle/passive indicative 3rd person singular - will be able
• *hēmas*: accusative 1st person plural - us
• *chōrisai*: aorist active infinitive - to separate
• *apo*: preposition with genitive - from
• *tēs agapēs*: genitive feminine singular - the love
• *tou Theou*: genitive masculine singular - of God
• *tēs*: relative pronoun genitive feminine singular - which is
• *en*: preposition with dative - in
• *Christō Iēsou*: dative masculine singular - Christ Jesus
• *tō Kyriō*: dative masculine singular - the Lord
• *hēmōn*: genitive 1st person plural - our

Word Meanings

• *hypsōma*: height/high place/elevation
• *bathos*: depth/deep place
• *ktisis hetera*: other creation/any other created thing
• *dynēsetai*: will be able/will have power [future]
• *chōrisai*: to separate/divide/part
• *agapēs*: love/affection/benevolence
• *Kyriō*: Lord/master/owner

Referenced Verses

• Rom 5:8 : 8 But God setteth out his loue towards vs, seeing that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for vs.
• Rom 8:35 : 35 Who shall separate vs from the loue of Christ? shall tribulation or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakednesse, or perill, or sworde?
• John 10:28-30 : 28 And I giue vnto them eternall life, & they shall neuer perish, neither shall any plucke them out of mine hand. 29 My Father which gaue them me, is greater then all, and none is able to take them out of my Fathers hand. 30 I and my Father are one.
• John 16:27 : 27 For the Father himselfe loueth you, because ye haue loued me, and haue beleeued that I came out from God.
• Eph 1:4 : 4 As hee hath chosen vs in him, before the foundation of the worlde, that we should be holy, & without blame before him in loue:
• Eph 2:4-7 : 4 But God which is rich in mercie, through his great loue wherewith he loued vs, 5 Euen when we were dead by sinnes, hath quickened vs together in Christ, by whose grace ye are saued, 6 And hath raysed vs vp together, and made vs sit together in the heauenly places in Christ Iesus, 7 That he might shewe in the ages to come the exceeding riches of his grace, through his kindnesse toward vs in Christ Iesus.
• Eph 3:18-19 : 18 That ye, being rooted and grounded in loue, may be able to comprehend with al Saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height: 19 And to knowe the loue of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled with all fulnesse of God.
• Isa 10:10-14 : 10 Like as mine hand hath founde the kingdomes of the idoles, seeing their idoles were aboue Ierusalem, and aboue Samaria: 11 Shall not I, as I haue done to Samaria, and to the idoles thereof, so doe to Ierusalem and to the idoles thereof? 12 But when the Lorde hath accomplished all his worke vpon mount Zion and Ierusalem, I will visite the fruite of the proude heart of the King of Asshur, and his glorious and proud lookes, 13 Because he said, By ye power of mine owne hand haue I done it, and by my wisdome, because I am wise: therefore I haue remooued the borders of the people, and haue spoyled their treasures, and haue pulled downe the inhabitants like a valiant man. 14 And mine hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people, and as one gathereth egges that are left, so haue I gathered all the earth: and there was none to mooue the wing or to open the mouth, or to whisper.
• John 17:26 : 26 And I haue declared vnto the thy Name, and will declare it, that the loue wherewith thou hast loued me, may be in them, and I in them.
• Titus 3:4-7 : 4 But when that bountifulnesse & that loue of God our Sauiour toward man appeared, 5 Not by the woorkes of righteousnesse, which we had done, but according to his mercie he saued vs, by the washing of the newe birth, and the renewing of the holy Ghost, 6 Which he shed on vs aboundantly, through Iesus Christ our Sauiour, 7 That we, being iustified by his grace, should be made heires according to the hope of eternall life.
• 1 John 4:16 : 16 And we haue knowen, & beleeued ye loue that God hath in vs. God is loue, and he that dwelleth in loue, dwelleth in God, & God in him.
• 1 John 4:19 : 19 We loue him, because he loued vs first.
• Rev 2:24 : 24 And vnto you I say, the rest of them of Thyatira, As many as haue not this learning, neither haue knowen the deepenes of Satan (as they speake) I will put vpon you none other burden.
• Rev 12:9 : 9 And the great dragon, that olde serpent, called the deuil and Satan, was cast out, which deceiueth all the world: he was euen cast into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
• Rev 13:1-8 : 1 (12:18) And I stoode on the sea sand. And I sawe a beast rise out of the sea, hauing seuen heads, and ten hornes, and vpon his hornes were ten crownes, and vpon his heads the name of blasphemie. 2 And the beast which I sawe, was like a Leopard, and his feete like a beares, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gaue him his power and his throne, and great authoritie. 3 And I sawe one of his heads as it were wounded to death, but his deadly wound was healed, and all the world wondred and folowed the beast. 4 And they worshipped the dragon which gaue power vnto the beast, & they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like vnto the beast! Who is able to warre with him! 5 And there was giuen vnto him a mouth, that spake great things and blasphemies, and power was giuen vnto him, to doe two and fourtie moneths. 6 And he opened his mouth vnto blasphemie against God, to blaspheme his Name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heauen. 7 And it was giuen vnto him to make warre with the Saints, and to ouercome them, & power was giuen him ouer euery kinred, and tongue, and nation. 8 Therefore all that dwell vpon the earth, shall worship him, whose names are not written in the booke of life of that Lambe, which was slaine from the beginning of the world.
• Rev 13:14 : 14 And deceiued them that dwell on the earth by the signes, which were permitted to him to doe in the sight of the beast, saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make the image of the beast, which had the wound of a sword, and did liue.
• Rev 19:20 : 20 But ye beast was taken, & with him that false prophet that wrought miracles before him, whereby he deceiued them that receiued ye beastes marke, and them that worshipped his image. These both were aliue cast into a lake of fire, burning with brimstone.
• Rev 20:3 : 3 And cast him into the bottomles pit, and he shut him vp, and sealed the doore vpon him, that he should deceiue the people no more, till the thousand yeeres were fulfilled: for after that he must be loosed for a litle season.
• Rev 20:7 : 7 And when the thousand yeres are expired, Satan shalbe loosed out of his prison,
• 1 John 4:9-9 : 9 Herein was that loue of God made manifest amongst vs, because God sent that his onely begotten sonne into this world, that we might liue through him. 10 Herein is that loue, not that we loued God, but that he loued vs, and sent his Sonne to be a reconciliation for our sinnes.
• Isa 10:33 : 33 Beholde, the Lorde God of hostes shall cut off the bough with feare, and they of high stature shalbe cut off, and the hie shalbe humbled.
• Isa 24:21 : 21 And in that day shall the Lorde visite the hoste aboue that is on hie, euen the Kinges of the world that are vpon the earth.
• Dan 4:11 : 11 (4:8) A great tree and strong, and the height thereof reached vnto heauen, and the sight thereof to the endes of all the earth.
• Dan 5:18-23 : 18 O King, heare thou, The most high God gaue vnto Nebuchad-nezzar thy father a kingdome, and maiestie, and honour and glory. 19 And for the maiestie that he gaue him, all people, nations, and languages trembled, and feared before him: he put to death whom he would: he smote whome he would: whome he would he set vp, and whome he would he put downe. 20 But when his heart was puft vp, and his minde hardened in pride, hee was deposed from his kingly throne, and they tooke his honour from him. 21 And hee was driuen from the sonnes of men, and his heart was made like the beastes, and his dwelling was with the wilde asses: they fed him with grasse like oxen, and his body was wet with the dewe of the heauen, till he knewe, that the most high God bare rule ouer the kingdome of men, and that he appointeth ouer it, whomsoeuer he pleaseth. 22 And thou his sonne, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all these things, 23 But hast lift thy selfe vp against the Lorde of heauen, and they haue brought the vessels of his House before thee, and thou and thy princes, thy wiues and thy concubines haue drunke wine in them, and thou hast praysed the gods of siluer and golde, of brasse, yron, wood and stone, which neither see, neither heare, nor vnderstand: and the God in whose hand thy breath is and all thy wayes, him hast thou not glorified.
• Matt 24:24 : 24 For there shall arise false Christes, and false prophets, and shall shewe great signes and wonders, so that if it were possible, they should deceiue the very elect.
• John 3:16 : 16 For God so loued the worlde, that hee hath giuen his onely begotten Sonne, that whosoeuer beleeueth in him, should not perish, but haue euerlasting life.
• Exod 9:16-17 : 16 And in deede, for this cause haue I appointed thee, to shewe my power in thee, and to declare my Name throughout all the world. 17 Yet thou exaltest thy selfe against my people, and lettest them not goe.
• Ps 64:6 : 6 They haue sought out iniquities, and haue accomplished that which they sought out, euen euery one his secret thoughtes, and the depth of his heart.
• Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The floodes haue lifted vp, O Lorde: the floodes haue lifted vp their voyce: the floods lift vp their waues. 4 The waues of ye sea are marueilous through the noyse of many waters, yet the Lorde on High is more mightie.
• Prov 20:5 : 5 The counsell in the heart of man is like deepe waters: but a man that hath vnderstanding, will drawe it out.
• Col 3:3-4 : 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ which is our life, shall appeare, then shal ye also appeare with him in glory.
• 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 Which is an aduersarie, and exalteth him selfe against all that is called God, or that is worshipped: so that he doeth sit as God in the Temple of God, shewing him selfe that he is God.
• 2 Thess 2:9-9 : 9 Euen him whose comming is by the effectuall working of Satan, with all power, and signes, and lying wonders, 10 And in al deceiuablenes of vnrighteousnes, among them that perish, because they receiued not the loue of the trueth, that they might be saued. 11 And therefore God shal send them strong delusion, that they should beleeue lies, 12 That all they might be damned which beleeued not the trueth, but had pleasure in vnrighteousnes.
• Rom 11:33 : 33 O the deepenesse of the riches, both of the wisdome, and knowledge of God! howe vnsearcheable are his iudgements, and his wayes past finding out!
• 2 Cor 2:11 : 11 Lest Satan should circumuent vs: for we are not ignorant of his enterprises.
• 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I feare least as the serpent beguiled Eue through his subtiltie, so your mindes shoulde be corrupt fro the simplicitie that is in Christ.